Curtain-fixture.



PATBNTED JULY 24, 1906.

A. M.-ROY. CURTAIN FIXTURE. APPLICATION FILED x0120, 1905.

WITNESSES (ATTFIPNW cm, wasmmmm, n. c.

, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CURTAIN-FIXTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 24, 1906.

Application filed November 20, 1905. Serial No. 288,209.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALPHONSE M. ROY, of Fulton, in the county of Oswego,in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements uponCurtain Fixtures, of which. the following, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to curtain-fixtures, and refers more particularlyto adjustable roller-shade holders.

My object is to provide a simple, practical, and efficient means forsupporting curtainrollers of different lengths and to avoid as far aspracticable mutilation of the window-casings to which the fixtures areattached. In other words, I have sought to produce a comparativelyinexpensive shade-holder consisting of sheet-metal brackets which arepermanently secured to the casing and are provided with transverse.slots for receiving adjustable sheet-metal bars, which are corrugatedthrough their longitudinal centers to engage yielding friction-ribs onthe permanent sections of the fixtures, whereby the adjustable bars arefrictionally held in their ad justed position.

Another object is to provide such bars with limiting-stops to preventtheir accidental displacement or withdrawal from their permanentsupporting-sections.

Other objects and uses will be made apparent in the followingdescription.

In the drawings, Figurel is a front elevation, partly broken away, ofthe upper portion of a window-casing, showing my improved adjustablecurtain-fixture applied thereto and also showing in dotted lines acurtain-roller and window-shade. Fig. 2 is an enlarged horizontalsectional view through one of the fixtures, showing the relativeposition of the curtain-roller by dotted lines. Figs. 3 and 4 areperspective views, respec tively, of one of the sliding sections andpermanent section of one of the curtain-holders.

In order that my invention may be clearly understood, I have shown theupper portion of a window-casing A, to which are permanently secured apair of sheet-metal brackets or loops 1. These brackets are spaced aparta suitable distance, usually directly over the upright side of thecasings, and each consists of a comparatively thin sheetmetal strip or.plate having its ends lying in substantially the same flat plane andprovided with apertures for receiving the fastening-screws 2,

while its central portion is pressed beyond the plane of its ends,forming a loop 3, the sides of which are provided withverticallyelongated slots 4, and its front or central portion isdepressed inwardly a slight distance and is provided with a pair ofopenings 5, forming a central vertical spring-bar 6, which is convexedinwardly and lies in a plane nearly coincident with the plane of theslots 4, as best seen in Fig. 2, for a purpose presently described.

Associated with each of the fixed plates 1 is a' comparatively thinsheet-metal bar 7, having one end 8 bent at substantially right anglesthereto and provided with an aperture 9 near its outer end. This bar 7is of subst'antially the same transverse width as the vertical height ofand is inserted through said slots, so as to be capable of lengthwiseadjustment, the opposite end being provided with a tongue 10, which isbent laterally in the direction opposite to the direction of theextension of the end 8 for forming a limitingstop to limit thelengthwise movement of the bar 7 and prevent its accidental withdrawalfrom the slots 4, as best seen in Fig. 2, said tongue 10 being of lesslength than the horizontal depth between the slots 4 and outer face ofthe flat end of the loop 3, so as to allow the bar to be adjusted itsfull length until the shoulder or tongue 10 engages the side in whichthe adjacent slot 4 is formed.

The bar 7 is corrugated through its longitudinal center practically itswhole length for forming a series of depressions in which the spring-bar6 of theiixed plate 1 is adapted to spring-to hold the bar 7 in itsadjusted position, the bar 6 being convexed inwardly, transverselyforming a rounding frictionface, which, though frictionally engaging inone of the depressions of the longitudinal corrugations, as 1], permitsthe corrugations of the bar 7 to ride across the convex face of the bar6, which springs outwardly and inwardly as each successive rib anddepression of the corrugation is encountered, said bar 6 springingbackwardly into one or the depressions of the corrugation tofrictionally lock the bar 7 in its adjusted position.

The plates 1 are substantially duplicates of each other and aretherefore interchangeable, and the bars 7 are also substantiallyidentical, except that one of the a ertures 9 is open at the top toreceive the at end or pintle to which the roller-spring of the curtainis attached.

In assembling the parts of my improved curtain-holder the tongues 10 ofthe bar 7 are straightened out in the plane of the bar and this end ofthe bar is then inserted through the slot 4 of the plate 1, after whichthe tongue 10 is bent laterally in the manner and for the purposedescribed, thus completing the fixture as an article of manufacture,after which the plate 1 is permanently secured to the casing-head A bythe screws 2, it being understood that the offset ends of the bar may bemoved or adjusted endwise against the opposite sides of the loop 3 topermit the use of a screw-driver or other tool for inserting thefastening means 2, which are located some distance beyond the oppositesides of the loop 3 in which the slots 4 are formed, as best seen inFig. 2. After the plates 1 and their curtain-supporting bars 7 have thusbeen secured in place they are ready to receive the curtain-roller, asa.

If it is desired to insert a different length roller, one or both of thebars 7 may be adjusted lengthwise by hand until the offset ends 8 arebrought to the desired distance apart to receive and retain the pintleends of the roller, the spring-bar 6 serving to engage one of thedepressions of the corrugation 11 to frictionally retain the bar 7 inits adjusted position.

What I claim is 1. A curtain-roll holder comprising sheet- Inetal loopspermanently secured in place and each provided with slots in itsopposite sides and a vertical spring-bar centrally in its front and in aplane substantially coincident with the slots, sheet-metal bars eachadjustable lengthwise in the slots of one of the loops and provided withcorrugations engaging said spring-bar, each of said bars having its endsoffset laterally forming limiting-stops to prevent the removal of thebar from the loop, one of said offset ends of each bar having anaperture to receive the adjacent end of the roller.

2. In combination with a casing and curtain-roller, separatecurtain-fixtures one at each end of the roller and each comprising ametal loop permanently secured to the casing and provided with verticalelongated slots in its sides; the central portion of the front of eachloop being depressed inwardly to substantially the plane of the loops,and a bar adjustable lengthwise in the slots and provided withcorrugations engaging the central depressed portion of the loop, saidbar with corrugations engaging said depressed portion-in the front ofthe plate, said bar having one end offset laterally and provided with anaperture for receiving the adjacent end of the curtain-roller.

4. A curtain-fixture comprising a comparatively thin sheet-metal platehaving its central portion depressed in a different plane from its endsand provided with o enings forming a substantially central spring-bar,said ends of the plate extending laterally in the opposite direction andlying in substantially the same plane, the portions of the plate betweenthe ends and central springbar being provided with slots, and a curtainsupporting bar slidable endwise in said slots and frictionally engagedby said spring-bar. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this17th day of November, 1905.

ALPHON SE M. ROY.

Witnesses:

HAROLD A. READ, H. L. PLATT.

